PROTOCOL DROID
Type: Protocol droid
Manufacturer: Cybot Galactica
Designation: Translator, negotiator
Affiliation: Various
Weapons: None
Debut: A New Hope
Though their primary functions of translating and diplomacy center on the ability to talk, sometimes Cybot Galactica's protocol droids just don't know when to shut up; they are extremely useful, but can easily show how they got their 'Talk Droid' nickname...
Among the most humanlike automatons ever developed, protocol droids are often used as aides for diplomats, politicians and officials. The standard TranLang III communications module fitted inside every droid enables them to speak over six million languages fluently - thus they are ideal translators and negotiators with foreign races. As well as being unrivalled translators, protocol droids are also experts in etiquette, decorum, religious rituals and table manners. A SyntheTech AA-1 Verbobrain allows protocol droids to carry out these functions impeccably, though it does permit the droids a certain personality. Like other automatons, protocol droids require memory wipes in order to keep these personalities in check.
Though Cybot Galactica had been making protocol droids for over a century before the Galactic Civil War, there was a boost in sales when protocol droid C-3PO helped the Rebel Alliance score victories over the Empire. Perhaps because of the skittish droid's fame, Cybot Galactica began production on a C-series of droids, manufactured exclusively on the factory moon of Telti. The model numbers ran from C-1 to C-9. Other protocol units away from the 3PO series have also been developed, such as the LOM protocol droids and the 3D-4X Administrative droids. |
